12 miles. Did the Wolf's Pit fell race route .. Twice :-)
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12 miles. Did the Wolf's Pit fell race route .. Twice :-)
6 miles on the hill, good fun and a cracking sunset.
Spring is peeking around the corner
Race the Sweeper must have seen you on the Monsal as I am at Great Longstone and run north to Buxton regularly!!!
A seven today on the trail to Bakewell and back home.......cold, damp and windy but not moaning as going to miss this commute to work, redundancy means last day on Thursday.....boo hoo!!!
Tired jet lagged 8 miler on derwent edge and back along the reservoir edge.. very slow and tired. Pretty cold up there.
4hrs on the hill, great little run out.
Sunset on the summit and a fantastic moonlit cloud inversion to follow.
Anyone know of any sites/apps that make good route plotting maps and wot not on ipad?
Have you looked at the UKhillwalking app? I've no idea but looks quite good.
Ferry over to Rotterdam last night, drove across holland and Germany today, moved into my flat, just been out for a 14 mile road run.. should have done it yesterday.. easy 7 tomorrow and a marathon Saturday.. obviously not one I'm taking too seriously..
14 mile / 5000' BG recce, Leg 2. Lot of hard packed snow about, but nothing drastic! All passable with relative ease. Slow though!!
Poor week, transatlantic flight, then ferry and 7 hr drive and moved into a new flat, started a new job..
But did 3 miles at 7:30 am followed by an easy 4.5 miles on beach and forest trails tonight, with the marathon tomorrow I'll just scrape 90 again but need to be hitting the 100s for the next 3 weeks..
http://eryridiaspora.blogspot.de/201...beach-run.html
Note to self, steer clear of IainRs strava thread. (Will have a gander at that ukhillwalking app, thanks)
A post work 6 miler on the hill just in time on the summit to sit down and watch the sunset, love this time of year.
Lots of snow melt in the highlands this last couple of days. Bodes well for some Ramsay training due in the next few weeks (I'm just tagging along for somebody else's training days, I'm not daft enough to go for that beastie)
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Originally Posted by shaunaneto
Today was a nice steady 2:48 marathon, even 1:24 splits...
Apart from some guy took off so I ran a 1:19:40 ish and a 1:20:15 ish to pb in 2:39:53..
Well rested.. absolutely no taper at all, the week following trans-atlantic flight, emigrating, new job, 90 mile week.. the night before whilst having a beer I decide to consider going for it if I think the conditions are good...
So with a good taper, stress free life before and competition I reckon mid 2:30's could be on... but I'm still focusing on the 100k.. but need to add some sensibility to my training, race structure.. I still struggle to not race hard..
A mere quick one up and down the ramp on Winter Hill for me toneet
Very small but positive day for me. Been out for 8 days after my back muscles went into spasm. Came off the medicine (diazepam and ibuprofen) yesterday and managed 2.1km running and 6km on the bike today with no obvious issues.
Fingers crossed I don't wake up knackered again, as I've entered teenager with altitude and want to start getting some hills in asap!
First weeknight run without the headtorch this year. Gorgeous evening as well. 8.7 miles.
finally found some hills and did 5.5 miles on trails, a whopping 200m of ascent..
Not had a day off for 90 days now, tried to do a speed sess last night but the track was icey and my legs are still tight from the marathon but am going to train with the local running club tomorrow.. I think its the club Marita Koch ran for...
90 days is a good effort Iain. Where are you now? Germany? Well done on the marathon p.b btwQuote:
Originally Posted by IainR
Aye, Rostock, up on the north german plain, just on the baltic coast. Nearest mountains a re a good 4 hrs away in the Harz or on the czech border, but munich and tegernsee alps are probably 8 hrs off so not too bad.. similar to a trip to scotland... Thanks.. I do easy recovery runs 3-4 miles as rest days which are needed.
4.2 this morning, steady.
eve: trained with Rostock club... 10 miles nice session, with 3 x 1k with 600 recovery, 5 min jog recovery and 2 x 1k with 600 recovery..
Suited me as legs tired, ran all 3:15/3:20 ish, but not many others, the rest were 4-4:20 k.. but good to have company..
But someone else contacted me and there's an african marathon runner in town who needs a training partner.. so we're getting together.. Rostock is big neo nazi so I'm probably his security...
21 mile in 2.46 to complete the strava long run challenge, longest run ever - previous was 14.4 mile and i did snowdon sunday and a 8.5mile strava segment bash on tuesday... yes i am chuffed with myself!
Tuesday ran 11 miles on the road with rucksack in the morning, in the evening I did a club interval training session 8X1200m with 1 minute rest after each 1200. Tonight did a steady 8 miles with the dogs.
ATB
Tahr
well done. good going. You aiming for a marathon?Quote:
Originally Posted by ben16v
9.5 miles up & down Simons Seat at 8 a.m. Very claggy with not a soul around, apart from a chap with a gun ! Last time I saw somebody with a gun, on Ilkley Moors, he asked if he could use me for target practise !
16.5 mile run up Brocken.. highest summit in germany outside of bavaria I think.. 1142 m.. followed by 7.5 mile XC ski.... grim day weatherwise but great to be in the mountains..
1hr steady run on the Monsal training Winnie. Trying new tactic when seeing other dogs, bikes, peeps. I say "Winnie down" (she drops down instantly) and i keep on running. Get past other dogs and peeps then call "Winnie come". She runs hell for leather to catch me up ignoring everything else between us. With bikes I call "Winnie come" after they have cycled past her. What a clever little pooch :thumbup:
In the morning a Winter League club race 5.5 miles to top of the old roman hill fort at Burnswalk, I won that. In the afternoon 18miles over 5000 feet of climbing following the old SHR championship route of the Moffat Chase. Should have been 17 miles but low vis’ meant we took a slightly longer route. Conditions on tops were character building:wink:, snow ice, gale force wind and low cloud we did the last two hills with head torch.
ATB
Tahr
nice weekend.. friday night 10 mile hilly road/trail run
Saturday 16 mile mountain run and 7.5 mile XC ski
Sunday 12.2 mile XC ski and will finish off with another 10 mle run soon..
http://eryridiaspora.blogspot.de/
For Euro 18 / night ensuite, looks and sounds priceless. Long live the Euro!Quote:
Originally Posted by IainR
hey have booked snowdonia marathon as my first later in the year - the strava challenge was for a long 20mile run, next month challengen is a marathon - we`ll see...Quote:
Originally Posted by IainR
Good one, Snowdonia is quicker than people think, you just need long hilly road runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben16v
Tired today, 14 miles @ 6:47 pace on snowy/icey cycle ways.. had to work hard, normally cruise that distance a few seconds quicker but maybe the weekend was taking its toll..
IanR I look at your amazing times and realise I'm a snail! Although if I could run quicker I wouldn't of froze my butt off on the tops above Monsal trail. Flipping heck it's cold today! 5.5mls slow :-)
Its all fast trails here.. in 12 miles I maybe get 50m of ascent.. so there's nothing to do but try and get the pace up... I'd give anything to be running slower over the tops.. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by RaceTheSweeper
But now trying to plan next weekends trip.. Bavarian Alps or Krkonoses in the Czech republic.. need some hills..
Good fun club run this evening, lovely crisp night out.
No comets in sight.
3.6km run tonight, in 17 minutes. That sounds pathetic but it's twice what I've managed since hurting my back 17 days ago.... Now feeling a whole lot less cooped up and, recurring stiffness allowing, hoping to get out again before work in the morning
Tired 4.5 this morning.. tonight 3 x 1mile reps on icey snowy track in -4, 5:30-5:40 pace.. felt tired and hard in conditions but good session.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulE
Met a local runner tonight from a landlocked SA country.. 67 min half marathoner.. so we'll be training together once I can coax him out of the gym..
Sprint up a train station platform, over the bridge,down the other side, carrying girlfriend's luggage for her weekend away.
About 200 yards and some ascent. And just made the train.
A brilliant hour and a half on a gorgeous evening last night catching the sunset. A fine way to remedy a day looking at spreadsheets and talking to consultants, one of which I can best describe a 'a broken man'
Has spring finally sprung.
Nice 6 miler last night at sunset in rostocker heide.. then 40 mins in the gym on the bike, followed steady 4.5 at lunch..
Today.. steady run.. well was meant to be, met a local runner, we both have races so he just wanted 15k on the treamill (he's from lesotho so won't run outside yet..), we did 17k, 11 miles, but 1 min at 6:20 pace, 1 min at 6, then 2 mins at 6 to the one at 6:20 as recovery.. I've been runing in sub zeroo conditions all winter, that was brutal... sweat was flying everywhere..
Fast 10km xc run, none of your namby pamby xc on mowed grass or ever so slightly muddy paths.
Ploughed field, coastal mud flats, thick gloopy mud paths, rivers to be waded, more ploughed field, rounded of with some more mud.
More fun than you can shake a muddy stick at!
Struggled all week with nasty chest noise that I suspect I picked up on the sub-artic Ian Roberts last week...tested it with a Parkrun yesterday and pulled a second best time...got up this morning at 7 for a 5 mile up and down around the local reservoir and what do you know? Snow everywhere, freezing wind and that rattling noise is back!
Absolutely lovely run up the hill early this morning, no one to be seen, grass all dewy, mist lifting :thumbup:
Don't think the running kit will fit by this time next week, it has gone from "tight" last weekend, to "a bit too tight" today! :thunbdown:
steady 10.5 in rostocker heide.. forest.. 101 day straight, 1000th mile of 2013...